Fare-register-operating device.



No. 643,884.' Patented Feb. 20, |900. A. E. NIELSEN.

FARE REGISTER OPERATING DEVICE.

(Application led July 19. 1899.)

(No Model.)

A s E I UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ANTON E. NIELSEN, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE STERLING SUPPLY AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FARE-REGISTER-OPERATING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,884, dated February 20, 1900.

Serial No. 724,376. (No model.)

To all whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, ANTON E. NIELSEN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fare- Register-Operating Devices, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to means for hanging permanent fare-registers of the type known as double registers in the passenger-cars of street and suburban railways or tramways and for transmitting the ringing or registering actuations to the same from the customary or improved ringing devices.

I-Ieretofore double-register hanging-blocks or register-backs, with their appurtenances, of two more or less distinct patterns have been provided for use, respectively, in open cars in connection with ringing devices eX- tending lengthwise of the car at both sides and in closed cars in connection with a single ringing device lengthwise of lthe car.

The present invention consists in animproved register-back attachment or set of operating devices for double fare-registers convertible at will and in a moment for use either in open cars or in closed cars; also, in certain novel combinations of parts in such operating devices, as and for the purposes hereinafter set forth.

By double7 registers I mean those that are adapted to register and indicate two kinds of fares, as transfers and cash fares.

The present operating devices are primarily intended for the Sterling Supply and Manufacturing Companys double fare-register described and claimed in a companion specification, forming part of my application for patent led simultaneously herewith the 19th day of July, 1899, and serially numbered 724,375. This improvement is, however, applicable to operating devicesA for double registers of other makes, and one and the same pattern of the improved operating devices may be used in common for different registers of standard size.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this speciication as part thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings 1s a face view of the improved double-register-operating devices, with a fragmentary edge view appended, as adapted for open cars, the same being shown in connection with a rod and strap handle ringing device. Fig. 2 is a face view of the improved operating devices as adapted for closed cars, the same being shown in connection with a rod and plain handle ringing device; Figs. 3 and 4L are face views of the respective removable levers shown in Fig. l, with appended edge views; and Fig. 5 is a face View, with appended edge view, of the removable lever shown in Fig. 2.

Like letters and n nmbers refer to like parts in all the figures.

Theimproved double-register-operating devices comprise a cast-iron hanging-block or register-back A, Figs. l and 2, of peculiar construction having hasp and staple projections l and 2 at bottom and top, adapted to coact, respectively, with the customary staple and hasp projections of double fare-registers, several of which are already of a standard size, so that one and the same pattern of register-back may be used in common.

The register-back A is preferably and conveniently dishshaped, with countersunk screw-holes 3 in its sunken back to provide for fastening it in place Within a car by woodscrews in customary manner, a pair of pivotstuds 4 and 5, one above the other, and a pair of stops 6 and 7 on said sunken back, a pair of notches 8 and 9 in the rim which supports the hasp and staple 1 and 2, and a flanged annular seat 10, interrupted by said notches S and 9, which is fitted to the back plate of the superposed register.

To coact with the customary actuator studpins projecting th rough slots in the back plate of the register, a pair of main levers B and B2 are pivoted in common on said pivot-stud 4t and constructed with notches 1l in their outer ends, corresponding with said actuator stud-pins, and rigid arms l2 at top to coact with the ends of a spiral spring O, by which said levers are normally held against said stops 6 and 7, as in Figs. l and 2. A pair of links D and D2 are pivoted by pins 13 at their upper ends to said levers B and B2, respectively, and are constructed with curved slots IOO 14; in their relatively-thick lower ends. To coact with the slots 14 of said links D and D2, a pair of removable levers YE and E2, Figs. 1, 3, and 4L, or a-single removable lever E, Figs. 2 and 5, as the case maybe, is pivoted on said pivot-stud 5. These removable'levers are in common approximately T-shaped and constructed with stud-pins 15 on their lateral arms to coact with said slots 14 and with a stud-pin 16 at the other extremity'of each'to coact with the pivot-hole in a connecting-rod coupling 17 and with a splitpin 18 orits equivalent for securing the connection. The studpin 5 and a pivot-boss 19 on each'of the levers are adapted in like manner to receive and coactwith split pins 2O.V In said arrangement (represented by Figs. 1, 3, and 4) the levers E and E2 are coupled to a pair of connecting-rods F and F2, Fig 1, whose outer ends in common are coupled to lever-armsG, fastened by set-screws 21 Von steel rods H, which are preferably and conveniently provided with cross-bar handle-levers I, fastened thereon at convenient intervals by set-screws 22 and provided with depending strap-handles .T in pairs, the location of each handle thus indicating the registering mechanism thereby pulled. The peculiarly-curved shape of the levers 'E and E2 in this arrangement prevents any'interference between the couplings 17 and permits the latter to be made as thick as may be required to coact with connecting-rods round in cross-section.

In the arrangement for closed cars (represented by Figs. 2 and 5) the single removable lever E is coupled by a like connecting-rod F to a like lever-arm G on a steel rod II at one side of the car provided with plain handles 1-that is to sayfrigid lever-handles-by each of which the rod II may be turned either way to actua'te either registering mechanism and ring either bell of the double register through theamedium of said lever-arm G, Fig. 2, connecting-rod F', removable lever E, link D or D2, and main lever B or B2. After each actuation'the parts are restored im their normai positions by the single spring C, and the strain is injall cases, except at the plain handles It, a pulling strain, producing alminimum of wear and tear.l

The improved operating devices are readily and quickly adjusted for open or closed cars at the factory by substituting the levers E and E2 for the lever E', or vice versa, or by completing the partially-assembled devices in either form, as required.

Other fastening devices may be substituted for the split pins 18 and 2O."Y The improved operating devices may be employed in connection with any known or improved construction of ringing device, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art;

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desireto patent under this speciiication-Y l 1. Improved operating devices for double fare-registers comprising a register-back provided with a pair of pivot-studs one above the other and a pair of stops, a pair of main levers pivoted at-their inner ends on the upper pivot-stud and having outer ends adapted to connect with the actuators of the respective registering mechanisms and bell mechanisms of the double register, a spring holding-said levers normally against said stops, a pair of links pivoted to said levers, dependingtherefrom, and having thickened and slotted lower ends, and interchangeable removable levers adapted to be pivoted on the lower pivot-stud of said register-back and having in common stud-pins to coact with saidslotted lower ends of said links and means for connecting the removable lever with a ringingY device.

2. The combination, in double-register-op- 'erating devices, of a register-back provided with a pair of pivot-studs one above the other and a pair of stops, a pair of main levers pivoted on the upper pivot-stud and adapted to connect with the actuators of the respective registering mechanisms and bell mechanisms of the double register and constructed with rigid arms at topfa spiral spring stretched between said rigidarms and operating to hold said levers normally against said stops, a pair of links pivoted at their upper ends to said levers and having slotted lower ends, and a substantially-T-shaped lever or levers pivoted on the lowerstud of said register-back and having studs zon its lateral arms to coact with the said slotted ends of said links.

3.Y The combination, in double-register-operating devices, of a register-back having a pair of studs one Vabove the other, a pair of main levers pivoted on the upper pivot-stud and'adapted to connect with the actuators of the respective registering mechanisms and bell mechanisms of the double register, a pair of links pivoted to said levers, depending therefrom and having thickened and slotted lower ends, and a pair ot substantially-T- shaped levers pivoted on the lower pivot-stud of said register-back and having short studpins to coact with said slotted lower ends from front and back respectively, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

ANTON E. NIELSEN.

Witnesses:

JAS. L. EWIN, WALTER BUYERS.

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